Nirvana: With the Lights Out (DGC)
Charles Shaar Murray, Observer Music Monthly, 12 December 2004
THE DOMINANT MOTIF of Nineties rock was backward time travel. In the UK, the likes of Supergrass and Oasis seemed to have discovered The Beatles via Buzzcocks and Sex Pistols; in the US, Nirvana filtered Seventies punk through Eighties stadium rock.
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